Ramsey Clark to Defend Saddam Hussein

This is good news. It should dispel any notion anywhere in the world that this is not a serious trial with top-notch defense counsel. In the words of Robert Jackson, this should “dispose of the contention that to put [this man] to trial is to do [him] an injustice entitling [him] to some special consideration. [This] defendant may be hard pressed but [he is] not ill used.” Saddam will be but the latest leader “of a defeated nation to be prosecuted in the name of the law, … [and] also the [latest] to be given a chance to plead for [his] life in the name of the law.”